Scot Graden - Superintendent of Saline Area Schools
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2008
A few years ago, several students approached the Saline High Administration about starting a dance team. They recruited Ms. Arnett to be the faculty advisor and connected with Community Education to handle the administrative duties. Since then the team has performed at Saline High School football and basketball games. This year’s squad has 26 students [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2008
Signs, signs, everywhere there are signs….. well, not in front of our High School. On Tuesday, the Board of Education approved the purchase of a new electronic sign for in front (just west of the front parking lot) of the High School along Campus Parkway. The sign will be a full color sign with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008
Tonight was a busy meeting. First, on behalf of the Saline Education Association, Tim Heim, Tim Timoszyk and Jim Letcher presented the board with books that were signed by each board member and will placed in the Media Centers of each building. This was done in honor of National Board of Education Appreciation Month.
We then [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2008
On March 13 & 14 there will not be school for our Middle School students. Saline Area Schools will be hosting the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators Conference. The hosting of this professional development opportunity will provide our Middle School staff with a chance to both showcase their instructional skills and learn new [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2008
On Tuesday, January 15 Harvest Elementary School hosted “Science Night” which is a cooperative program with the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum intended for both students and adults. By all accounts it was a success – several other elementary schools have partnered with AAHOM to host this fun and educational event. Thanks to Ms. Grunow [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2008
In the last two days we have reviewed two possible tools for us to gather meaningful data on student learning. One product, Pearson Benchmarks, is an assessment development tool. This product allows our teachers to quickly develop appropriate assessments (tests) for students. The software is built with the State of Michigan Grade Level Content [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2008
I’m looking for some feedback on what the community finds useful about our website and also what are some features we should look to add in order to improve its usefulness. If you have looked around recently, you probably have noticed that over the last 4 months we have updated our individual school pages, community [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2008
Tonight’s Board of Education meeting was well attended - by Saline High students. I can tell it is getting close the end of the semester. While I am sure many of the students attend for the pure entertainment value, my guess is the requirement for attendance that some of our government and social studies classes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 5th, 2008
I hope everyone had a wonderful break. We are set to get back to business on Monday. January will be a busy month - we will begin the board policy review, 2008-2009 budget process and have a joint Administrative staff and Board of Education meeting on January 15th. Not to mention, exams the week of [...]